title: Solution-processed flexible fluorine-doped indium zinc oxide thin-film transistors fabricated on plastic film at low temperature.
abstract: Transparent flexible fluorine-doped indium zinc oxide (IZO:F) thin-film transistors (TFTs) were demonstrated using the spin-coating method of the metal fluoride precursor aqueous solution with annealing at 200°C for 2 hrs on polyethylene naphthalate films. The proposed thermal evolution mechanism of metal fluoride aqueous precursor solution examined by thermogravimetric analysis and Raman spectroscopy can easily explain oxide formation. The chemical composition analysed by XPS confirms that the fluorine was doped in the thin films annealed below 250°C. In the IZO:F thin films, a doped fluorine atom substitutes for an oxygen atom generating a free electron or occupies an oxygen vacancy site eliminating an electron trap site. These dual roles of the doped fluorine can enhance the mobility and improve the gate bias stability of the TFTs. Therefore, the transparent flexible IZO:F TFT shows a high mobility of up to 4.1 cm(2)/V·s and stable characteristics under the various gate bias and temperature stresses.
authors.affiliation: Lab. of Optical Materials and Coating-LOMC, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology-KAIST, Daejeon 305-701, Korea.
authors.forename: Jin-Suk
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Seo
authors.forename: Jun-Hyuck
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Jeon
authors.forename: Young Hwan
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.forename: Hyungjin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Minki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ryu
authors.forename: Sang-Hee Ko
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Byeong-Soo
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Bae